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We released version 1.0.5 of the Aeris Weather API which provides support for Canadian postal codes and several bug fixes. Review the version history for a complete list of changes. Canadian Postal Codes With this release, Canadian postal codes have been added to our supported place formats. When using postal codes, the space that occurs within the middle is optional, making “M3C 4H9” and “M3C4H9” equivalent. An example of finding the place information for a postal code: /places/M3C4H9 /places?p=M3C4H9 /places?p=M3C%204H9 An example of finding the closest observation for a postal code: /observations/M3C4H9 Warnings We have introduced the concept of request...

Today we released version 1.0.3 of the Aeris Weather API. This release provides support for auto-complete style queries with the new “starts with” functionality as well as several other minor items. Additionally, with this release we added batch requests as a beta feature! Batch requests allow you to query multiple endpoints with a single request to the servers. Review the version history for a complete list of changes. “Starts With” Query / Auto-Complete A common feature seen in many weather applications is the auto-complete style functionality that queries the server as a user is typing in a location name. Now...

Today we released version 1.0.2 of the Aeris Weather API that provides some significant new capabilities, as well as several enhancements and bug fixes. The complete list of changes can be found in our version history, though some of the more significant enhancements include: Sorting Most APIs allow fetching of data, but leave sorting and filtering up to the developer to handle. With the Aeris API, we aim to simplify development by allowing the API to handle many of these features instead. The new sort parameter allows making requests for data that is sorted by one or more elements from...